Cape Times

Lame excuse

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IT SEEMS now that reality is slowly but surely hitting Jacob Zuma, he still wants the state to pay for his merry lawyers and their famous delaying tactics.

Why did he not finalise his trials and charges in office once and for all.

As for the argument that this was committed while in office, conducting his duties:

What if a politician commits murder or rape? Was this done while in office conducting official duties?

Does this give every public servant and politician a “bonus card” for speeding fines, parking fines and other issues and the state also has to find the money to finance their legal battles as “this was committed while in office conducting official duties”.

In the past Zuma had many Indian benefactor­s, all of whom probably saw him as nothing more than a meal ticket.

It’s amazing that some of these Durban benefactor­s (all of whom have gone silent) were even chauffeurs to his family members. Where are they now?

A good test is to see where they were in 1987 in relation to Zuma.

Zuma, these guys used you good and solid. Ask them for money.

One of his benefactor­s was caught “copying” in an engineerin­g high voltage exam in 1990; and he did not complete his studies thereafter.

It must have been the pressures of the Struggle which were highly charged, especially in 1990.

Surely Zuma and this guy go back a long way in the “Struggle” days.

My advice is to ask these benefactor­s and “Struggle” comrades, (none of whom even knew or had tea with Zuma in 1987) to pay for your fees. Muhammad Omar Durban North

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